Unlike other names of the Silmarillion, the texts gives us also an English rendering, which is possibly from [[Westron]]: '''''Mickleburg'''''. ''Mickle'' is a root meanng "big"; see also [[Michel Delving]].

Unlike other names of the Silmarillion, the texts gives us also an English rendering, which is possibly from [[Westron]]: '''''Mickleburg'''''. ''Mickle'' is a root meanng "big"; see also [[Michel Delving]].

At the end of the Fist Age, Belegost was ruined in the War of Wrath, and apparently abandoned. Many Dwarves from Belegost joined Durin's folk in Khazad-dûm 60 years after the war, however there were always Dwarves on the Eastern side of the Blue Mountains.